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Muscatine Journal in Muscatine, Iowa

09 Aug 1902

Page 12

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Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1902

Page

12

Storie of Judge Linney and the Apple Tree Trial

In a packed Pike county courtroom a lawyer turns a near defeat into victory by presenting an apple tree as the core physical fact. The tale recalls Linney and Otey and cites judges, wit, and cases where plain objects tilt verdicts, with humor on memory, lawyering, and a famed Pike circuit scene.

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Linney Otey Romulus Z. Linney North Carolina Peter J. Otey Virginia Congress White House Major Otey Representative Johnson Iowa Thomas A. Sherwood Supreme Court Bob Campbell Pike County George W. Whitecotton Balls County Bob Pike Rohr Tapley Fitzgerald Whitecotton Chaunce Filley Vienna Bashan Sheriff Edward T. Smith Edwardses Tom Stewart Smith Stewart Clark Big Smoky Mountain Aaron Burr Elijah Robinson Kansas City Sevenoaks Robinson Lord Elden Jack John Marshall William H. Biggs Oklahoma St. Louis William Senator Biggs
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Iowa Attorney General Mullen Says Grace Day Law Abolished

Iowa Attorney General Mullen announces the state has abolished the days of grace provision in the law. The statement clarifies no grace period remains for certain filings and licenses, affecting retroactive deadlines and administrative timing.

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Tragedy of a Clock and a Soldier’s Death in Kentucky

A Kentucky tragedy near Bardstown tells how Miss Patsy Colerain hid lover Reuben Morehead inside a century old clock to evade guerrillas in April 1864. The raid ended with Morehead slain, Patsy grievously ill, and the clock remaining as a silent witness to the moonlit horror.

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Bardstown Ives Nathan Colerain Patsy Colerain Colerain Mansion Nelson County Reuben Morehead Kentucky Young Morehead Patsy Reuben North South Confederacy Sue” Mundy Colerain House Vatsy Miss Colerain Sue’ Mundy Morehead
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Thrilling shark encounter ends with killer captured

Fort Wayne swimmer H M Speerman faced a 8 foot man eating shark off Atlantic City. He grabbed what he thought was a dead man, found the tail of the shark, got a foot bitten, wrist nearly severed, lifeguards and a boathook killed the shark. Speerman fainted aboard.

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H. M. Speerman Fort Wayne Ind Atlantic City Speerman Walter H. Nelson Nelson Mr. Speerman
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